John Davey
Bioinformatics Team Lead
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Davey is a Bioinformatics Team Lead with ~15 years of hands-on experience turning genomic data into actionable results for academic groups and industry clients. He combines deep computational skills (Python, R, SQL, Docker, CI/CD) with practical bioinformatics across sequencing platforms (Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore) and applied machine learning to accelerate target selection and clinical studies. His career spans university research—building tools like the Tapestry long-read assembly visualiser and supporting large-scale speciation genomics—with later roles leading teams and products that automate public-data mining for drug discovery. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs technical leadership and mentoring with a track record of shipping reproducible analysis pipelines and running cross-functional skills forums that improve operational choices. Something not obvious: he has repeatedly bridged bespoke academic research workflows and production-ready engineering, making complex genomics accessible to non-specialist stakeholders.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroinformatics at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (121)
package-management10
structural-variation10
genomes10
genomics10
conda10
pairwise10
bioinformatics10
file-manipulation9
singularity9
reproducible-science9
nextflow9
bioconda9
fasta9
slurm9
genome-assembly9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
johnomics/Martin_Davey_Jiggins_evaluating_introgression_statistics
Dec 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:11 commits, 1 comment in 7 months
johnomics/scripts
Feb 2013 - Jun 2018
Contributions:132 commits, 33 pushes, 7 comments in 5 years 5 months
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